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Citizens without Shelter - Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion (Hardcover)
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Citizens without Shelter - Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion (Hardcover)
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One of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness,
Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to
what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of being human and
nothing but human" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life."
Feldman argues that the politics of alleged compassion and the
politics of those interested in ridding public spaces of the
homeless are linked fundamentally in their assumption that homeless
people are something less than citizens. Feldman's book brings
political theories together with discussions of real-world
struggles and close analyses of legal cases. In Feldman's view, the
"bare life predicament" is a product not simply of poverty or
inequality, but of an inability to commit to democratic pluralism.
Challenging this reduction of the homeless, Citizens without
Shelter examines opportunities for contesting such a fundamental
political exclusion, in the service of homeless citizenship and a
more robust form of democratic pluralism Feldman has in mind a
truly democratic pluralism that would include a pluralization of
the category of "home" to enable multiple forms of dwelling; a
recognition of the common dwelling activities of homeless and
non-homeless persons; and a resistance to laws that punish or
confine the homeless.
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